Archive for Oracle Ace Program

I know we are not writing anything for a long now and I’m here just to give you two good news (and one is the reason I’m not writing anything until now :))

First of all I just received the information that Oracle level up me to ACE :).

That’s means, I’m the first and the only oracle ACE in the BI track in the entire Brazil 🙂

I’m so happy and glad to receive this title that is difficult to express in words, but I need to thanks you guys for support and incentive.

The other good news (and this one explain my absence). I just got married :), and I need to say, it was a great party 🙂

I’ll publish some pictures just to show how much fun we have 🙂

The wedding was in Nova Petrópolis, a German city in the mountains. Beautiful place with awesome food 🙂

And because I’m not a conventional guy 🙂 (No body in IT is right?) I had to do my wedding a little bit different 🙂 and I must say, it was worthy :). I think it was the best wedding I ever went 🙂 (by the way, in Brazil the wedding start 4 pm and goes until 5 am).

This is my pet 🙂 a maine coon kitty, my wife Erika and my axe 🙂

and here is how the party ends 🙂

Don’t you guys think Rodrigo looks like someone else?

A lot of fun.

Now talking about work, we are working in some new stuff, and very soon we’ll have some cool thing posted here then…

For people that doesn’t know what this is all about here’s the Oracle announcement 🙂

You are part of an enormous, worldwide community of Oracle Database technologists, with deep expertise in a variety of areas. And you have likely heard of Andy Mendelsohn, who runs the Database Server Technologies group at Oracle, and has been deeply involved in Oracle Database for decades. This year, Andy has established a new awards program to honor and give more visibility to members of the community who combine technical excellence with a commitment to sharing their know-how with developers.

This is a different kind of awards program for Oracle; it’s called “Developer Choice” because with these awards, our users nominate people and ACE judges come up with a list of finalists. Thirty-two finalists have been selected in five categories: SQL, PL/SQL, Application Express, ORDS and Database Design.

Today we will not post anything cool for you, instead we want to post something awesome for us.

We have been accepted to receive the Oracle ACE Associate award . We are extreme happy and honored to be part of this team. Only to let you know how important this is for us, in the Business intelligence expertise there are only 46 members in the world and in Brazil only 3 (yes we are from Brazil).

If you do not know what is the Oracle ACE program here is a brief description about it:

“The Oracle ACE program highlights excellence within the global Oracle community by recognizing individuals who have demonstrated both technical proficiency and strong credentials as community enthusiasts and advocates”. Oracle

Well, now what is our plan for this year? We set some goal for us and they are:

Write at least four big white papers;

Post about other EPM technologies like OBIEE, BigData, etc… (Yes we work with this too);

Present in Kscope 15 and maybe in other conferences;

Start to plan a chapter in a Book;

More certifications;

And start our Big ultra-secret project that will rock the EPM world (At least we like to think so).

Well, this is our way to give back what the community has given to us.

And for the last but not the least, we want to thank everybody that helped us to achieve this awesome award, and a especial thanks to Cameron Lackpour for starting this process and believe in us (more than ourselves).